+11 Equity Markets drive Options or Options drive Equities 6 11y
+30 FI Trading Down? 25 11y
+10 Difference between hedging with and without Volatility Smile 10 11y
+31 Physical commodities trading house - natural gas analyst role - is this a good opportunity? 24 11y
0 Mock Trading Session 6 11y
+11 HK and SG S&T 2015 112 11y
0 S&T trading interview process? 10 11y
0 Is "security analysis" still relevant? 0 11y
0 Supermajor Physicals Compensation? 8 11y
0 Summer S&T SA compensation 11 11y
+37 JUST RELEASED: New WSO Prop Trading Interview Guide 7 11y
0 ING vs Barclays 0 11y
0 first round S&T? 8 11y
+20 Mechanics of IPO 7 11y
0 Candlestick vs. quantitative trading 2 11y
0 Super days for S&T positions 2 11y
+19 MM S&T prospects 27 11y
0 Asking HR which desks are hiring 1 11y
+28 Do traders at investment banks still able to make large sums of money or are those days over 30 11y
0 Casfddf 5 11y
0 Dynamic Between the Traders and Researchers Inside HFs 0 11y
0 Sales & Trading vs Prop structure 7 11y
+9 Goldman Sachs Engineering -> Trading / Trading Assistant 6 11y
0 Finance undergrad requiring trading guidance/mentorship 6 11y
0 JPM Women Who Trade Interview? 6 11y
0 Treasury Trading Desk Vs Market Making 2 11y
0 ghhff 4 11y
0 Anyone use MIAC Analytics WinOAS? 0 11y
0 BaML Offices 2 11y
+45 Commodities Trading Internship Interview 22 11y
0 Oil Trader @ Citadel 3 11y
0 Need insight into trading career 8 11y
+37 No bonus because I've been at firm for less than 1 year??? 25 11y
0 Which S&T desks @ banks (such as Goldman, etc) are hiring right now? 1 11y
0 Help : Dairy export logistics FT position at a AG trading firm 6 11y
0 BNP Paribas Fixed Income S&T SA 13 11y
0 Legal Action against a prop arcade? 1 11y
+11 Value of a Forward Contract - Example 2 11y
+7 Citi S&T vs. GS IM - Sophomore 5 11y
0 Wall Street Promotions 1 11y
0 Muni Sales and Trading 16 11y
0 Software Developer (and eventually Quantitative Researcher) position at an IT consultancy turned high-frequency HF. Good idea? 4 11y
0 Post Assessment Centre interview 0 11y
0 Can someone explain gas daily options vs. American options? 3 11y
0 Any High Yield or Bank/Leverage Loan Traders here? 4 11y
+116 Is commodities the only S&T desk where you reach 6 to 7 figures ? 92 11y
+38 Beast Mode's Options Trading Journal 45 11y
0 Need some input and advice please 0 11y
0 Does SIG ask its incoming FT Traders for Transcripts? 3 11y
0 To old school traders: Dealing with a change in trading structure. 3 11y
0 Distribution 0 11y
+3 Excel valuation of stock in practice. PV( ) function 2 11y
0 Cargill summer merchant intern or BAML summer sales and trading analyst? 6 11y
+14 Risks for a Counterparty Risk Trader 4 11y
0 How difficult is it to move to S&T from IBD? 11 11y
+11 Trading Mortgage Backed Securities 18 11y
+20 Trader Bonus Across the Street 5 11y
0 Graduating at 25 from undergrad...how much of a handicap for trading recruitment? 5 11y
0 Incoming Equity Sales Analyst - Advice? 15 11y
0 Has anyone taken the Series 99? 1 11y
0 Is doing research on companies the bulk of the work for analysts, whether in prop trading, asset management or equity research? 2 11y
0 Trading & Structuring FT Graduate Interview at Credit Suisse 7 11y
+9 Corporate Derivatives? 4 11y
0 Great blog about the prop trading experience 0 11y
0 3Red Trading 2 11y
0 Resources for learning about FX 2 11y
+13 FX Spot Trading 9 11y
+9 Recruitment for Top Tier Market Making Firms 7 11y
+14 Can someone tell me about CDO trading please? 3 11y
0 Please tear my cover letter to pieces 0 11y
0 Money Desk 0 11y
0 Final Round with Louis Dreyfus?????? 12 11y
0 BNP S&T 5 11y
0 EIA & IEA Jobs 2 11y
0 Ag Commodities 2 11y
+51 Power Trading -- Electricity Trading 29 11y
+11 Trending Stock Discussion: GOPRO 8 11y
+22 How exactly traders “provide liquidity” in the markets 9 11y
0 Forecasting currency changes using Econometrics 2 11y
0 KGS Alpha Capital Markets? 0 11y
+36 Can Anyone Recommend a SOLID Bond maths book for young bond traders? 35 11y
0 Energy Rodeo 2015- Glencore confirmed 7 11y
0 Direct Energy Trading Operations Graduate Program 4 11y
0 Anyone hear back from the DRW Super Saturday? 8 11y
+29 What are S&T hours really like and do they vary by bank/desk? 18 11y
0 CME Membership Length 1 11y
0 How will the US rates hike affect investment banks? 13 11y
0 Anyone heard of Feis Trading? 0 11y
+9 App for Trading Test Prep 0 11y
+17 HOW SMART ARE YOU > logical reasoning > enter the bulge! 5 11y
0 Stock Alert Services?? Anyone ever use before? 0 11y
0 Series 55 11 11y
+8 Optiver Salaries 4 11y
0 FICC Revenues Up 2 11y
0 Bunge Superday? 2 11y
0 Decent portfolio mgmt tools for retail investors? 0 11y
0 Stock Dilution of new shareholder, public offering 0 11y
0 Looking to speak with people in distressed/high yield or bankruptcy/restructuring lawyers 1 11y
0 Starting career at non-top Prop Trading firm (need serious advice) 5 11y
0 Trading - Covered Bond, ABS & CASH bond 0 11y

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